Table of Contents

• LESSON B2: RAINWATER HARVESTING
  • Overview and summary of this lesson
  • General aspects
    • Rainwater management alternatives
    • Data needs/storm runoff
    • Design flow
    • Water balance
    • Stormwater pollutants
  • Rainwater infiltration
    • Preconditions for infiltration
    • Types of infiltration systems
    • Design of infiltration facilities
    • Special considerations and maintenance of infiltration facilities
  • Water harvesting techniques
    • Benefits
    • Limitations
    • History
    • Harvesting methods
    • Water storage
    • Design criteria
      • Runoff agriculture
      • Storage tanks
    • Traditional water harvesting techniques in Tunisia
      • Meskats
      • Mgouds
      • Jessour
      • Cisterns
        • Different types of cisterns
  • Exercises
    • Questions
    • Answers and Solutions
  • References